Does it ever seem to you that Jesus can be a little unrealistic? Today Jesus tells us “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. But how can we go round loving everyone we meet? Isn’t love reserved to those closest to us … our parents, children, and partners? Harder
Jesus is the ‘Good Shepherd’ and we are his flock …. or are we? It’s easy to call ourselves Catholics or Christians, but unless we act like it we are only Catholics in name. How can we call Jesus our shepherd or our role model yet not model our behaviour after the most basic of church teachings? How can we be a part of Jesus’
After the Resurrection, we might have expected the disciples to rush off in a frenzy of enthusiasm spreading the good news, but no, today we find them back on the lake fishing. When you stop for a minute to imagine what it might have been like to be in Peter’s shoes perhaps it isn’t all that surprising. Peter had given up everything for Jesus and
Poor old Thomas! Condemned to go down in history as ‘Doubting Thomas’, for demanding proof of the risen Jesus. Yet how many of us would admit to a sneaking sympathy for Thomas? How many of us would have done exactly the same thing in his shoes? In our defence we come to the story from a slightly different angle to that of Thomas’s; we come
Do you ever wonder how different things would have been if we had reached the tomb a little earlier? What if we had reached the tomb in time to witness the detail of what happened next? Would witnessing what happened next have changed the way we live? We are told that the empty tomb gives our life purpose. Belief in the resurrection means we can
Here we are again at the beginning of Holy Week, but what is it that makes Holy week holy? As we process into Church on Palm Sunday waving our palms or weaving them into crosses, it’s tempting to feel that this is all just a commemoration of the past. But if Holy Week doesn’t impact on our lives a little more with each passing year,
